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Julián Posada

@posada.website

💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu 📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026) 🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms 🌐 https://posada.website/

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Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
DISCO Network@disconetwork.bsky.social · 4d ago

TOMORROW: Join us on Zoom for Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI! Featuring @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social, @posada.website, Apryl Williams, @fractalecho.bsky.social, and @steelecat717.bsky.social.

DISCO Network@disconetwork.bsky.social · 3w ago

UPCOMING EVENT: Join us for Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI! 📅 Friday, October 9 at 2 - 3:30 PM ET 🎤 Jenny Davis, Julián Posada, Apryl Williams, & Rua Williams in conversation with Catherine Knight Steele 📍 Zoom 🔗 Register: events.umich.edu/event/149368

Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI poster with an abstract arrangement rectangles in yellow and magenta and a magenta perspective grid.
404 Media@404media.co · 4w ago

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Julián Posada@posada.website · last mo.

Today, I will be delivering the first keynote at the 9th Conference of the International Network on Digital Labor, hosted at the International Labour Organization. The talk will be broadcast live on the United Nations Web TV channel at 14:30 CEST (8:30 AM EDT): webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a...

Data work and territory: The Latin American experience

Behind today's artificial intelligence systems lies a vast and often invisible workforce responsible for generating, annotating and curating the data on which these systems depend. In this keynote, Ju...

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Rest of World@restofworld.org · last mo.

AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-training-jobs-expert-replacement/?utm_campaign=row-social

I refused to train the AI that could replace me

AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.

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Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 2mo ago

Julián Posada, a professor at Yale University, speaks about AI data work that is outsourced to Venezuela. The workers, some of whom are paid as little as 50 cents per hour, “would not know who the employers were or what even the AI they were helping develop is.”

Lilly Irani@gleemie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mechanical Turk may be shutting down, but AI will always depend on data workers whose knowledge trains and tunes models. AI runs on extracted cultural skills and knowledge, and culture is always changing. Less the end of an era, but the end of an early prototype.

Louise Matsakis@lmatsakis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I focus quite a bit on MTurk in the book I'm writing about ImageNet. Modern "AI" wouldn't exist if it weren't for MTurk, and, moreover, the blueprint ImageNet created for data labor.

Louise Matsakis@lmatsakis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers

Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think a lot of people don’t understand that the academic freedom that we have — which we have fought for — is not the freedom to say every asinine racist & sexist thing that you think.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫

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Carissa Véliz@carissaveliz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's not OK to wear smart glasses around other people. It's not cool. It's creepy, disrespectful. It pollutes the public sphere with the oppression of surveillance. It puts the onus on non-Glassholes; that's not asking for consent. www.vogue.com/article/do-s...

Do Smart Glasses Have a Surveillance Problem?

Big Tech is investing in fashion’s cultural legitimacy to make AI smart glasses socially acceptable, but consumers view them as synonymous with surveillance. Is removing the camera the key to adoption...

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